David Suzuki’s Good Old Daze – small dead animals

“We’re going the wrong way. I see the world that my grandchildren are growing up in and it’s nothing like the world I grew up in as a boy,” he said last week.
“That’s not supposed to happen. You’re supposed to pass on the world the way you received it from your grandparents and we’re not doing that.” – David Suzuki

h/t London Fog.

21 Replies to “David Suzuki’s Good Old Daze”

Beyond the right or wrong of WWII actions, Mr Suzuki’s father was part of a generation that saw hope and improvement in the world. The real world and not the one Mr Suzuki and others of his ilk inhabit really has gotten better and will continue to get better if we can overcome the ills of the nanny state.

Let’s see. When he was growing up, cities were expanding, cars were getting bigger, there were armed conflicts around the world, the Jews were getting stomped on by those in power and France was on fire.
Sounds like today to me.

With all due respect to the esteemed Mr Suzuki, the world his grandfather grew up in participated in 2 World Wars, suffered through polio and lack of anti bitiocs, etc, that resulted in the deaths of untold millions- and conversely, the world progressed and another million positive influences made a difference.
None of those things we take for granted today came about as a result of avoiding our environment and reality.
To believe that life is not meant to progress is wistful thinking, at best.
Mr Suzuki should know that- he sounds a bit like Barbra Steisand lecturing us on conservation.

A suggestion – you folks might try clicking on the link provided.

Sounds to me that David Suzuki never bothered to grow up.
I prefer Yamaha motorcycles .. Suzuki have continued to pass on their models unchanged.

Pearl Harbour was a valid reason for Canada to suffer pronounced Paranoia.
The reflex, while not perfect, was restrained.
Canada moved to contain those who may have had a few possible subversives.
Dr. Suzuki seemed to come out of that chain of events in fairly good condition.
I wonder how we Canadians would behave towards
Muslems today if Iran were to detonate a nuclear device in Israel and suddenly join in with Syria, Egypt and others in a concentrated drive to beat down the *West*.
Interesting what if, eh? 73s TG

Kate’s right. Click on the link. Suzuki-san has never gotten over being Japanese in Canada during WWII. He was interned in the Slocan during WWII. Quelle horreur. “He says it was an “enchanted” time when he would spend his days gathering wildflowes, fishing and camping.”, but his quarters were cramped and dirty.
Oh my God. Poor baby. If he’s going to bring up his Japanese ancestry, and I’m not saying that he should, he should be apologizing for the treatment suffered by Westerners at the hands of his fellow Nipponese during their internment. I saw the mangled fingernails of a family friend on his return from the Pacific after WWII. Check out the book “Ghost Soldiers” or the movies “The Great Raid” of “The Bataan Death March” if you don’t know what the Japs did to their internees.
Only in Canada could a Jap get away with slanging his government over the treatment of Western internees by Japs during WWII.

Oops. Only in Canada could a Jap get away with slanging his government over the treatment of Jap internees by the west during WWII. It’s getting late. Time to hit the hay.

So he wants Canada to bring back internment camps??
What the f&^% Dave, you’re losing me…

Don’t forget the cannibalism. According to one book, anyway (Fly Boys, about GHW Bush’s service, I think), the Japanese actually factored in the meat that captured GIs would provide when planning their military provisions.

Kate.
Why would you put a link to the cbc? They’re sort of like the National Inquirer, several words are perfectly true, but unlike the NI (which I don’t read either)they pretend to be a news group.

maybe he is asking to be arrested and sleep with the bedbugs again- a sharing natural world where you share your blood with lesser creatures.
I’ll bet Mr. Enviro has burnt 100 times the jet fuel I have.

Mea culpa times 3.

surecure you left out that the japanese were slashing and burning their way across the pacific because oil was running out.
The whole internment thing is a crock, They locked up Ukranians too a war before that and I never want any of that money to come into my house. Makes us better canadians.
Funny that was a war earlier and still no one lining their pockets. Guess the MSM’s don’t care if you aren’t multicultural enough.

Susuki is a never was, at least he knows his family, I will never know a cousin that was captured by the Japanese and butchered in a prison camp. Now most CDNs of Japanese decent did nothing like this, but there were some that returned to fight for the emperor. How sad is that…….

Ever hear of “The Kamloops Kid”?
Born in Canada. Educated in Canada. Went to fight for Japan in WW2. Wound up as a guard in a POW camp.
He reputedly was the worst of the lot.

The world of my grandparents was the shits to be blunt.They worked hard and died relatively young compared to the life expectancy today

Suzuki gave a speech at the U of R in late ’84 where he talked about everyone going back to living off the land (i.e. build log houses in the bush) and to forget about using science and technology to solve any of society’s problems. He said things were much better back before technology permeated our lives. Suzuki meant that the way humans are now (you, me and everyone else) is a real threat to the planet and it’s other inhabitants and he blames technology for delaying the “correction” to that problem.
I guess he could live with at least 4 billion people starving to death since “living off the land” without modern technology means less production from much less land. The fight for food would mean that maybe only the scrapiest billion would survive. Of those survivors, sickness and disease would claim it’s share…as would harsh weather and natural disasters…as would wars between competing tribes…so life expectancy in Suzuki’s brave new world would be cut in half or worse from where it is in our modern technologically driven nations.
Sounds like near future Dr. Strangelove Nirvana to me. If we keep supporting the Liberal social engineering projects it could all be ours soon! Unfortunately in such a world there’d be no time for studying fruit fly DNA but what a final solution it would be! Say, what side did the Japanese fight on during WWII?

what the good dr. advocates is mass starvation, the top end of society doesnt survive , the bottom does. a minimalist culture of stone age economic limits. he should throw away his coke bottle bottom glasses. they represent too much technology, but it would match his vision of the future- short sighted